Beneatha Younger

Beneatha Younger (1939-) was an American expatriate medician in Nigeria.

Biography
Beneatha Younger was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Walter Younger Sr. and Lena Younger and the sister of Walter Lee Younger. She studied to become a doctor at a time when both women and African-Americans were unlikely to enter the profession, and she also took guitar lessons. She lived with her brother, sister-in-law Ruth, mother, and nephew Travis in a one-room apartment in Chicago's South Side, and she was idealistic and materialistic. She dated wealthy black man George Murchison and Black Power activist Joseph Asagai, and she was convinced by Asagai that she was being assimilated into white culture, and that she should come to Nigeria with him to practice medicine. She agreed to marry him, and she left home for Nigeria.